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Friday, 22 March 2013

Once Upon a Time VII - postcript

After yesterday's Once Upon a Time post, the perfect addition has just arrived from the local library! Bookshelf readers will know that I adore Elly Griffiths' series of mysteries about archaeologist Ruth Galloway, and Dying Fall is the latest. I requested it before it was published and it's only had three previous readers so I bet it's been round the library staff already! This series is the sort to be very eagerly anticipated, not least for their terrifically atmospheric settings.

The Ruth Galloway books always have an element of the unexplained about them - Ruth's friend Cathbad is a druid - and this time she's off to answer a plea from a friend in one of the spookiest places in England, Pendle, home of a frightening series of witch trials in the seventeenth century. I'm sure they will be a theme for this book, alongside modern elements.

This is probably going to scare the living daylights out of me. I can't wait.

I loved the first Elly Griffiths novels about Ruth and Cathbad and Nelson, but wasn't keen on the one about the racing stable for some reason, so I've left that unfinished. Maybe I shall return to it as I'd like to read this one and I know it's important to finish books in a series because of the back story. Coincidence that this book is set in Pendle as I have The Pendle Witches on my bookshelf (by Harrison Ainsworth) which was a Christmas present to me when I was about eight years old, and I only keep it for sentimental reasons, so maybe I should dip into that, too!Margaret P